{"id":2126,"date":"2010-07-12T16:52:07","date_gmt":"2010-07-12T23:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/?p=2126"},"modified":"2010-07-12T16:54:28","modified_gmt":"2010-07-12T23:54:28","slug":"is-the-church-set-up-to-fail-just-like-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/2010\/07\/12\/is-the-church-set-up-to-fail-just-like-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the church set up to fail just like Israel?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The Gentiles are new, and&#8230;they have to be given time to experience  Christ. Paul said that the same thing in the Epistle to the Romans: the  Jews failed everything despite the prophets, and the Christians have to  be careful not to do the same thing. What is the Holocaust if not that  terrifying failure?<\/p>\n<p>Rene Girard, Battling to the End, p.112<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Look at the adulterous wife of Hosea. He loves her even though he knows from the get-go that she will cheat on him constantly. This is a picture of God&#8217;s relationship with the Jews. But isn&#8217;t Jesus&#8217; relationship with the Church the same deal? We don&#8217;t have the prophets to warn us now that he has sent the Holy Spirit. That&#8217;s an improvement. He wants to present us as a spotless bride, but what in fact are we? Dirty and full of violence. Yet he loves us still.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;The church will succeed where Israel has failed&#8221; is an idea I seem to hear implied sometimes, but one that I really don&#8217;t think you&#8217;ll find anywhere in the Bible.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I think what you really find is &#8220;God will remain faithful, even though _____ (Abraham, Israel, Peter, the Church, fails).&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gentiles are new, and&#8230;they have to be given time to experience Christ. Paul said that the same thing in the Epistle to the Romans: the Jews failed everything despite the prophets, and the Christians have to be careful not to do the same thing. What is the Holocaust if not that terrifying failure? Rene &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/2010\/07\/12\/is-the-church-set-up-to-fail-just-like-israel\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Is the church set up to fail just like Israel?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2126"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2128,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2126\/revisions\/2128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}